Tub.



1. AOCUNNINGHAM.

TUB.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 1. 1915.

Patented Oct. 10, 1916.

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Witnesses Attorneys,

JOHN A. CUNNINGHAM, OF SOUTH BETHLEHEM, PENNSYLVANIA.

TUB.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 10, 1916.

Application filed September 1, 1915. Serial No. 48,503.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that 1, JOHN A. CUNNING- HAM, a citizen of the United States, residing at South Bethlehem, in the county of Northampton and State of Pennsylvania have invented a new and useful Tub, of which the following is a specification.

The device forming the subject matter of this application is adapted to be employed either as a bathing tub or as a tub in which garments and the like are cleansed.

One object of the invention is to improve the shield or guard structure which surrounds and coacts with the upper edge of the tub.

Another object of the invention is to provide novel means for draining the tub.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device of the type above men tioned which will be readily convertible from a wash tub into a bathing tub, means being provided whereby portability of the structure is secured.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the present invention appertains.

1th the above and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that.

changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawing :Figure 1 shows in cross section, a tub embodying the present invention, parts being broken away; Fig. 2 is a top plan, parts being broken away and removed; Fig. 8 is a longitudinal section, parts appearing in elevation, and the shield shown in Fig. 1 having been replaced by a shield of slightly different construction; Fig. 4 is a perspective showing a portion of one of the side walls of the shield in use in Fig. 1; Fig. 5 is a perspective showing one of the posts employed in connection with the shield shown in Fig. 3.

In carrying out the present invention there is provided, a tub 1 made of enameled ware or other suitable material, the tub 1 embodying side walls 2 and 3, and end walls l and 5. The walls 3, 1 and 5 preferably are disposed vertically, whereas the Wall 2 slants outwardly. All of the walls are provided along their upper edges with continuous, inwardy projecting, overhanging, hookshaped beads 6.

The bottom of the tub 1 may be equipped with hangers 9 in which are retained axles 7, carrying wheels 8, to the end that the tub may trundle about readily from place to place. Any suitable means may be provided for preventing the tub from moving. With this end in view, dogs 10 are pivoted to the axles 7, the dogs being adapted to be swung downwardly as shown in Fig. 3, to engage the floor, thereby preventing the tub from shifting its position.

The tub 1 may be equipped at one end, (the end 5) with a depending overflow outlet 11 discharging into a funnel 12 attached to the upper end of a vertical pipe l-it opening into the intermediate portion of a horizontal pipe 15 having a vertical extension 16 communicating with the interior of the tub 1 through the bottom thereof. At the point of juncture between the pipes 15 and 16, or elsewhere, may be placed a hand operated cut-oii valve 17 A hose (not shown) may be assembled with the pipe 15, and when the valve 17 is opened, the water in the tub 1 may be drained away through the pipes 15' and 16.

In order to prevent the tub from overflowing, the pipes 11 and 14 are provided, it being observed that as. the water in the tub 1 rises, the water will flow out through pipes 11 and let, and run away by means of the pipe 15. Owing to the fact that the funnel 12 is interposed between the pipe 11 and the pipe 14, access is had to both of these pipes, and particularly the pipe 14, for the purpose of removing any foreign matter which otherwise might clog the pipes.

In the sides 2 and 3 of the tub 1 are fashioned horizontal recesses 18 defining shoulders 50 adapted to uphold a removable seat 19, the latter element being of utility when the structure is used as a bath tub. The wall 8 may be provided, close to the bottom of the tub 1 with spaced recesses 20 adapted to receive the ends of the legs of a wash board (not shown).

In order to prevent water from splashing out of the tub when the same is in use as a bath tub, the upper edge of the tub is cir-.

prising sides 21 and ends 22, these elements being provided with upwardly projecting hook-shaped beads 23 interengaged with the heads 6 of the tub proper 1. The parts 21 and 22 of the shield slant outwardly and rest as indicated at 24: upon the upper edges of the heads 6. Owing to this fact and owing to the manner in which the beads 23 and 6 are interengaged, the constituent parts of the shield will neither drop downwardly or swing outwardly to an undesirable extent. However, the outer faces of the parts 21 and 23 of the shield may be equipped with depending, resilient arms 25 and 26, bearing against the outer surface of the tub. The arms 26 preferably are straight, to coact properly with the vertical walls, the arms 25 being offset-slightly. If desired, the sides 21 may be equipped at their ends with inverted, U-shaped holders 27 adapted to engage removably with the upper edges of the ends 22. The shield above described may be attached readily to the tub and with equal facility may be removed therefrom when the occasion for the use of the shield has passed.

Should the operator desire a higher shield than that shown in Fig. l and hereinbefore described, then recourse may be had to the shield shown in Fig. 3. Noting Fig. 2 of the drawings, it will be observed that the heads 6 are equipped, adjacent the corners of the tub 1 with holes 28. Near to one end of the holes 28 and located along the sides of the tub in the beads 6 are other holes 29. In the holes 28 may be placed the reduced, shouldered, lower ends 33 of posts 30, the posts carrying a flexible, upstanding shield 31 which may be fashioned from a rubber composition, canvas or the like, the lower edge of the shield depending within the contour of the tub 1, so as to deflect water thereinto. Should the operator desire to shift the position of the shield above described, temporarily, then one set of the posts is removed from the holes 28 at one end of the tub and is shifted to the holes 29 adjacent the other end of the tub, the shield in this manner being disposed in a compact form, and the major portion of the top of the tub being open, exposed and unencumbered.

Because of the fact that the tub l is wheel mounted, the structure may be moved about readily from place to place, as occasion may demand.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is In a device of the class described, a tub provided along its upper edge with an inwardly projecting, depending, hook-shaped head; a multi-part shield comprising pairs of angularly disposed plates, provided at their lower edges with underlying hookshaped beads which are outwardly prolonged in a direction substantially parallel to the plates and interengaged with the head of the tub, the plates being supported on the head of the tub; one plate of each pair being provided at its end with an inverted U- shaped holder engaged over the upper edge of the angularly disposed plate of said pair.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN A. GUN N INGHAM.

Witnesses:

FRANCIS CUNNINGHAM, MILTON P. CAsrINER.

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